Little empirical work has quantified the transitory effects of macroeconomic shocks on farm production behavior or on interhousehold differences in response to disruptions. We develop a simple analytical model to explain how macroeconomic shocks might temporarily divert managerial attention, thereby affecting farm-level productivity, but perhaps to different degrees and for different durations ...

The Atlantic meridional overturning circulation (AMOC) is the northward flow of surface water to subpolar latitudes where deepwater is formed, balanced by southward abyssal flow and upwelling in the vicinity of the Southern Ocean. It is generally accepted that AMOC flow oscillates with a period of 60-80 years, creating a regular variation in North Atlantic sea surface temperature known as the A...

We recently reported a previously unidentified strategy of self-repair in the moon jellyfish Aurelia aurita. Rather than regenerating lost parts, juvenile Aurelia reorganize remaining parts to regain essential body symmetry. This process that we called symmetrization is rapid and frequent, and is not driven by cell proliferation or cell death. Instead, the swimming machinery generates mechanica...

Maia, Luis; Loureiro, Manuel; Silva, Carlos; Pato, Assunção; Loureiro, Marli; Bartolomé, Ma. Victoria Neuropsychological assessment using Luria Nebraska neuropsychological battery Its introduction in Portugal. Results from an introductory first empirical portuguese study 3 short case studies Revista Portuguesa de Psicossomática, vol. 7, núm. 1-2, janeiro-dezembro, 2005, pp. 179-193 Sociedade Po...

Between March-May 2013 a massive Salpa maxima bloom was recorded by a citizen science study along the Ionian and Adriatic coast of the Salento peninsula (Italy). Citizen records were substantiated with field inspections along the coast and during an oceanographic campaign in the Otranto Channel. Salps clogged nets, impairing fishing activities along the coast. Swimmers were scared by the gelati...

Australian Rivers Institute – Coast and Estuaries, and School of Environment, Griffith University, Gold Coast, Qld 4222, Australia, School of Science and Engineering, University of the Sunshine Coast, Maroochydore, Qld 4558, Australia, Biogeography Branch, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Silver Spring, MD 20910, USA, Marine Institute, Plymouth University, Plymouth PL4 8AA, UK, ...

Procedures are developed for calculating effects of western boundaries of arbitrary geometry on low-frequency equatorial waves. We show that the mass flux incident at the coast is all returned eastward by equatorial Kelvin waves. Short Rossby waves generated as part of the reflection serve only to redistribute mass along the coast. For the case of a uniformly sloping coast we present formulae a...

The Atlantic Forest is represented on the coast of Brazil by approximately 7.5% of remnants, much of these concentrated on the country's SE coast. Within these southeastern remnants, we still find the coastal Caiçaras who descend from Native Indians and Portuguese Colonizers. The maintenance of such populations, and their existence in spite of the deforestation that occurred on the Atlantic For...